How Do You Store Your Playbills?
How Do You Store Your Playbills?
#0How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:33pmWell I thought I would just make this its own thread (instead of "Playbill Index"). What are the ways in which you store your playbills? I just have mine in a few stacks, but I was thinking about doing something with them...
BJC899
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/04
#1re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:34pmI have those Playbill, plastic sleeved, binders. I think they're worth the extra cash.
#2re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:35pm
i buy the binders that Playbill has and store mine that way. i don't do anything special with them other than that, though. no special sealed plastic bag or anything. i figure in 100 years someone will want them with or without the plastic bag 
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#3re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:35pm
The ones that I have that are signed are in frames on my wall.
All the extras are in ziploc bags in shoe boxes.
Blue J
Featured Actor Joined: 1/31/05
#4re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:40pmMine are just in a box in my closet at the moment. I should probably do something more tasteful with them though.
#5re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:40pmGod, mine are just thrown into a corner of my office.
#6re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:47pmI have a wooden case on wheels. It has nice shelves, and holds a lot of playbills.
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#7re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:48pmI don't have many, but the ones I have have are laid out on a shelf on one of the shelves in my room.
#8re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:50pm
A stack on a shelf.
Those binders are nice and all, but I'd probably fill one a year at this rate, so it's really not worth it in the long run.
Wanting life but never knowing how
#9re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:51pmThey're in sheet protectors in a few three ring binders.
#11re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:56pm
I turned mine into an art project for my room. I took a large piece of clear vinyl, and glued smaller pieces of clear vinyl to it as pockets. Then I stuck the playbills in the pockets all lined up and hang the whole thing on my wall. That way I can see all my playbills at once, and easily remove them from their pockets to look through them if I want.
-BJH 
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#12re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:00amI keep all of my theatre things (signed headshots, programs, Playbills, etc) in a big plastic box. It sits near all of my messy shelves in the corner of my room.
#13re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:00amMine are in ziploc bags stacked up on each other on a shelf. So...kind of a combination of what everyone else did. :]
#15re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:06amCovering my walls, along with old record cases from shows, and window cards. I have about 3 more spaces, and then they'll start rotating out for new one.
#16re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:12am
I turned mine into an art project for my room. I took a large piece of clear vinyl, and glued smaller pieces of clear vinyl to it as pockets. Then I stuck the playbills in the pockets all lined up and hang the whole thing on my wall. That way I can see all my playbills at once, and easily remove them from their pockets to look through them if I want.
-BJH
Post a photo! That sounds beautiful!
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#17re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:26am
I currently have mine stacked in a tupperware container in my room, but I'm hoping to get a binder in the near future (the only thing I don't like about the official Playbill binders and sleeve is that there doesn't seem to be a place with each Playbill to note the date, which would be helpful to distinguish Playbills from different back-to-back performances of the same show). But eh, my collection is a baby collection compared to most anyway. More special to me are my signed souvenir programs and a painting I did signed by Hugh Panaro and Julie Hanson...and I still haven't done anything special to store those.
What excites me more is a giant box of Playbills my parents have kept going back to the 70s. It's hard to get to so I haven't been able to go through it to see how complete it is (it probably doesn't have every single performance they've ever seen...oh well), but I've agreed to organize and catalog it one of these days. I think I'll adopt them as my own babies.
#18re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:30am
the only thing I don't like about the official Playbill binders and sleeve is that there doesn't seem to be a place with each Playbill to note the date, which would be helpful to distinguish Playbills from different back-to-back performances of the same show).
This is what ticket stubs are for! You slip your Playbill into the binder and in the back of the sleeve, insert the ticket facing out. And you'll know that that Playbill is from that specific performance. Dat's what I do at least.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#19re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:48am
I taped (with clear tape) the tickets into the playbills and have them stacked (in order in which i saw them) in a plastic container under my bed. That is the first thing I packed when I moved to college this year. lol.
I really need to get binders for them though. Christmas present maybe.
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SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#20re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:51am
This is what ticket stubs are for! You slip your Playbill into the binder and in the back of the sleeve, insert the ticket facing out. And you'll know that that Playbill is from that specific performance. Dat's what I do at least.
Alas, if only it were that simple! I've already begun stapling my ticket stubs inside the front cover and I just can't stop...it would ruin EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING.
If I were ever to put them all in a binder, I'd have to burn--no, waste--3 calories taking the entire thing out of the sleeve to check the date. Ah well.
#21re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 1:13amIn a shoebox, but I want to make a scrapbook.
#22re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:24amThey decorate the wall at my house.
FeelingElectric
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
#23re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:34amI use binders and regular sheet protectors you can buy anywhere. I store the playbill, ticket stub, and usually a stage door pic or two that I get from that show. I keep them in order by date as well. That works pretty well for me.
#24re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 4:09am
I cycle which ones go on the wall, depending on my mood (or my theme), but they're mostly all in a drawer at home. When I'm living here in the city, I feel weird not taking any with me (and I see more shows when I'm living here, too, so they pile up quickly), but yeah.
I don't understand those Playbill binder things. Don't they only fit something like ten to twenty Playbills? Wouldn't it be sort of inconvenient to have a bunch?
#25re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 6:08am
I currently have them in a few large three ring binders in normal sheet protectors. I'm in the middle of indexing them, so they're all in alphabetical order as well.
The Playbill binders seem impractical to me. Although the playbills fit nicely into the sleeves (of the expensive one), they only hold 18. The cheaper ones, that hold only 16, snap the playbills in and seem like they might damage them. I don't think that some I have would survive the trauma.
OOTI2004
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/05
#26re: How Do You Store Your Playbills?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 6:33amI frame all of my playbills and hang them on the wall in my bedroom.
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